TNB: Niggerling Demonstrates African American Art Appreciation
Martin Luther Queen
POSTED: 10:42 am EST February 28, 2006
DETROIT -- The Detroit Institute of Arts is stuck with having to repair a
painting worth $1.5 million.
It has to remove a stain left by a wad of gum stuck on the painting by a
12-year-old visitor.
It happened Friday. Museum officials said the boy was with a group from
Holly Academy in Oakland County, Mich., when he took the gum out of his
mouth and stuck it on Helen Frankenthaler's 1963 abstract painting "The
Bay."
The gum didn't stick to the fiber of the canvas, but left a stain the size
of a quarter. Museum experts are researching the chemicals in the gum to
decide how to clean the painting.
Holly Academy director Julie Kildee said the boy had been suspended from
the charter school and said his parents also have disciplined him.
"Even though we give very strict guidelines on proper behavior and we hold
students to high standards, he is only 12 and I don't think he understood
the ramifications of what he did before it happened, but he certainly
understands the severity of it now," said Kildee.
Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press.
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> Sprog Sticks Gum On $1.5 Million Painting At Museum
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> POSTED: 10:42 am EST February 28, 2006
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> DETROIT -- The Detroit Institute of Arts is stuck with having to repair a
> painting worth $1.5 million.
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> It has to remove a stain left by a wad of gum stuck on the painting by a
> 12-year-old visitor.
I'm surprised the yard ape didn't "tag" it with spray paint